My camera's DOOMED!

Hmmmmm .... I’m having a quiet chuckle .... my camera has natural DEADLY PREDATORS!!! Yep ... you heard me right .... my camera, the tool of my trade, is vulnerable!!
I’ve recently LIKED a page on FB called Picture Correct Photography and it was the title of their post today that caught my attention ... I HAD to go read it! The things that can kill my camera, particularly with it being a digital camera, are MOISTURE, Dust, Salt, SAND, Jerks and Bumps, and Creams and Lotions.

A gorgeous Indy!

Mine’s doomed .... it’s exposed to all of the above on a daily basis ... especially the moisture and sand.


For a while, when I first started rambling with the hound, I used to carry the little cyber-shot with me ... far more practical and easier to lug around than the big SLR. It doesn’t take the same quality of picture as my bigger buddy though ... so the bigger buddy gets hauled along too ... and gets exposed to all the predators that could KILL it. It’s an endangered species!!

Pepsi and Chocolat racing for the ball

Take this morning for instance ... we bumped into Jane and Pepsi whilst the hound was leaping off the stairs after her ball. Pepsi loves diving into the water from the steps almost as much as my hound ... he loves racing her for the ball and occasionally manages to beat her to it. The standard routine on retrieving the ball and swimming back to the steps is to race up to the pavement, drop the ball ... and shake .... regardless of who or 

Who's going to get there first?

what might be in the way. I’ve lost count of the number of unsuspecting pedestrians who’ve been given an impromptu shower as they walk past the steps. I always apologise, and fortunately the majority of them find it quite amusing ... most of them stay to watch the next huge leap into the waves!

Chocolat got it this time ....

... and they both got it next time.

The point of my story though is that often the camera gets showered by sea water when one or the other hound shakes ... it’s almost impossible to prevent as I’ve often been taking pics of the chase or race up the stairs!  How else would I capture the antics and expressions of our hounds if I didn’t always have the lens pointed in the right direction.

Neither's prepared to let go!

It’s the same with the sand ... kicking a rugby ball into the waves means sand is kicked around too. I end up with copious amounts in my hair and on the camera - another ‘impossible to prevent’ situation.

Indy, scratching his back!

It’s also impossible to prevent an “Indy attack”!  When Indy sees us on the beach for the first time each day and Julia lets him off lead, he’s like a charging Rhino .... a rather large, chocolate brown charging Rhino!! He races down the beach, hell for leather, looking for all intents and purposes as if he’s going to BOWL you over ... it’s so funny to see and is ONE of the highlights of my day! The only disadvantage is the doggy nose art he leaves on the lens if I’m not quick enough to lift the camera out the way. You’d think I’d have learnt by now, after all Julia and I have been walking the hounds together every day since Christmas ... I can only surmise that I must be a slow learner.

Dingle Dell

Regardless of the DANGERS my camera is exposed to every day, it isn’t going to stop me lugging it along on my rambles. How else would I be able to share the beauty of my sunrises, the sparkles in the waves, the raindrops on roses .... and especially the antics of my hound .... if I didn’t have a camera as an extra appendage.

Throw at us what you will world ... THIS camera is indestructible!

I think Julia's laughing cause it's so difficult to get the hounds to sit how we want them!